Performance & Governance

Build a healthy enterprise performance and governance culture, deliver outcomes and improve transparency and trust.

Shape Your Agency's Future

Strong performance and governance practices drive value for organisations. It helps secure outcomes and improve transparency and trust. This is especially important for public sector agencies that are subject to intense public and political scrutiny, often have multiple stakeholders, and are under increasing pressure to meet growing citizen expectations. 

Our experience has shown that robust enterprise performance practices are the cornerstone to delivering outcomes for the Commonwealth. A robust approach means you deliver better outcomes for government, clearly articulate the unique value of your agency and drive the right behaviours. We support agencies to design and implement enterprise performance and governance practices to build a healthy performance culture.

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Building a Healthy Performance Culture

How leaders can build a healthy performance culture to deliver greater agency impact. Four things you will discover by joining the webinar:

Performance Frameworks How to build a mature enterprise performance framework so that your agency is ready for ongoing ANAO performance statement audits

Transparent Culture How to foster an open and transparent culture so risks and resources are effectively allocated and managed

Corporate Plan How to ensure your agency’s corporate plan becomes the nexus of your performance culture

Reporting Impact How to use both data and evaluation activity to help monitor, review and report your agency’s impact to external stakeholders

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Leaders in Enterprise Performance & Governance

How we think

Insight

Navigating new ground with AI: Supporting health in the military

Rethinking work
There is no shortage of opportunities for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Still, we need to stop thinking of them only as tools for automation, operational uplifts and efficiency gain. There are opportunities that extend beyond the day-to-day, explore new ground, and open up areas that are not obvious, yet deliver significant value and benefit. These opportunities can be found in almost every industry, and by way of example, there have been exciting advances in AI and ML supporting mental health in the military.
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Frivolous & Vexatious find a new friend (Unreasonable) through Australia's privacy reforms

Rethinking work
First published in the LexisNexis Privacy Law Bulletin issue 2024 20(10), the article was (less whimsically) entitled "Expansion of Data-Subject-Access-Request (DSAR) Rights Under the Privacy Reforms." The article examines how lawyers and privacy practitioners may be able to rely on a concept from Freedom-of-Information (FOI) law (unreasonableness) to guide them in advising on practical strategies to manage expanded DSAR rights under Australia's privacy reforms.
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"Performance Data" and the Legal Gymnastics

Beyond compliance
Healthy Performance Culture
Data Governance in sport is a bit like the Wild West, where entrepreneurs sign 'prospects' up to contracts that are light on detail - and tend to be even lighter on legalities. And I'm a case in point.  One sporting contract I signed gave me very little ability to negotiate or amend the terms, but it gave the other party virtually unlimited rights to record collect, transmit, measure, use, modify, and alter any information related to my training and race data. This included, but was not limited to heart rate, calorie intake, power output, velocity, cadence, and location data. In the sporting world, this is referred to as "performance data".
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The power of positive leadership in procurement

Rethinking work
Ah procurement! The term often strikes fear into the hearts of every (or at least most) public servant. Adding to these fears are perceptions of complex regulatory and policy frameworks as well as the certainty of an audit. As discussed in previous articles, procurement isn't done well, in general in the APS (or in State/Territory Governments for that matter). However, it doesn't have to be this way - and (most) public servants need not 'live in fear' of procurement. In fact, the opposite should be true - they should embrace procurement, banish the fears and develop a positive approach to procurement and contracting.
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